Lends to small business, including "the woman in the market selling vegetables, farmers raising chickens and growing rice, traders taking the rice to market, weavers, fishermen and cooks." The government owns 57%, but Bank Rakyat, which means "People's Bank," claims to have been profitable for 20 years, even during the Asian financial crisis. 570 branches across Indonesia's mostly rural archipelago collect savings from 33 million mostly lower-income customers. Does good and does well; return on capital has averaged 22% over the last 5 years.

All figures are in U.S. dollars. Market value as of Aug. 8. 1 - Annualized 2 - Annualized; projected over next three to five years. 3 - Combined market value for BHP Billiton Ltd. and BHP Billiton Plc. (a dual-listed company with headquarters in Australia and the U.K.) Price to sales, estimated P/E and yield are only for BHP Billiton Ltd. 4 - Three-year figure. 5 - Combined market value for Rio Tinto Ltd. and Rio Tinto Plc. (a dual-listed company with headquarters in Australia and the U.K.). Price to sales, estimated P/E and yield are only for Rio Tinto Ltd.
NA - Not available Sources: FT Interactive Data, Thomson IBES and Worldscope via FactSet Research Systems; Bloomberg Financial Markets.